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Smarten

//ˈsmɑːt(ə)n// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up. transitive

    "The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting."

  2. 2
    To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.). transitive

    "I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd."

  3. 3
    To augment with computer technology. transitive

    "How do we achieve this smartening of the grid? The CALM approach in the future will be to use reinforcement learning (RL) controllers as a basis for optimizing the synergy between operators and automation."

Etymology

From smart + -en.

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